Hi guys,
This is a brand new section at www.totem.cz called “English Corner”. It was designed for people who are either interested in English language or for those, who do not origin from the Czech Republic. Its goal is to give a chance to all creative people who want to present their works on public. We decided to make our magazine accessible not only to Czech people, but for strangers and foreign students as well.
So, if you have any poems, stories, jokes, reviews, or whatsoever written in English you’d like to present, just feel free to send it here. I hope you’ll like this attempt to make this magazine “international”, and I’m looking forward to your responses, messages, and contributions. I also hope, we’ll have a lot of fun, and I’m gonna try to contact some of my friends from abroad, so as we might have a chance to meet people from different parts of the world.
Anyway, if you have any questions so far, feel free to ask me either here at www.totem.cz - my nickname is Cobain, or at my e-mail: vpinkas@post.cz. And now, come in please...

Anybody who owns his own home... >>During my last visit of my homeland I could not miss the development of new subdivisions near some cities. Not these big concrete buildings, but brand-new family houses, often with garages for more cars and even with swimming pools.
I could see, that the progress can not be stopped and also the tendency of many townspeople tired from life in cities and moving closer to the nature. This trend was very fast developed in North America few decades ago and is still somehow, even if not on the same scale and from the same reasons in progress.
Thin book from wellknown American comedian Alan King who lived through this early period, describes ironically and humorously his feelings, which, I believe, could be of interest even for today Czechs society.
So, here is the beginings of his stories…

MAR1LYN MAN5ON >>Curriculum Mansonae...You can hate him, you can love him – he truly is the ”KING OF SHOCK”, scary hermaphrodite, alien, parasite, a jellyfish with cobras instead of hair, calling himself...